# rubor
## English
### Etymology

From Latin rubor.

### Noun

rubor (uncountable)
* (pathology) redness, one of the main signs of inflammation

### References

* rubor on The Free Dictionary

### Anagrams

* Robur, burro

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rubōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ruˈβor]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ruˈbo]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ruˈboɾ]

### Noun

rubor m or f (plural rubors)
* blush, blushing
* redness (inflammation)

#### Derived terms

* ruboritzar
* ruborós

### Further reading

* “rubor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Latin
### Etymology

From rubeō (“I am red, reddish”) +‎ -or.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈru.bor/, [ˈrʊbɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈru.bor/, [ˈruːbor]

### Noun

rubor m (genitive rubōris); third declension
* redness
* (by extension) blush
* (figuratively) modesty
* (figuratively) shame, disgrace
    Dixit duas res ei rubori fuisse.He said that two things had abashed him.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* rubēdō
* rubefaciō
* rubelliānus
* rubelliō
* rubellulus
* rubellus
* rubēns
* rubeō
* ruber
* rubēscō
* rubeus
* rubicundulus
* rubicundus
* rubidus
* rubrīca
* rubricātus
* rubrīcō
* rubrīcōsus
* rubrus

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: rubor
* Old French: rovur, roveur
* → Portuguese: rubor, arrebol (via arrebolar)
* → Spanish: rubor, arrebol (via arrebolar)

### References

* “rubor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “rubor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* rubor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rubor (“redness”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁuˈboʁ/ [huˈboh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁuˈboʁ/ [huˈboh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ʁuˈboɾ/ [huˈboɾ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʁuˈboʁ/ [χuˈboχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʁuˈboɻ/ [huˈboɻ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁuˈboɾ/ [ʁuˈβoɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁuˈboɾ/ [ʁuˈβoɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ʁuˈbo.ɾi/ [ʁuˈβo.ɾi]
* Hyphenation: ru‧bor

### Noun

rubor m (plural rubores)
* blush
** 1995, José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Caminho:Não tinha sequer olhos para notar uma palidez, para observar um rubor da circulação periférica, […]He did not even have eyes to notice a paleness, to observe a blush in the peripheral circulation, […]

#### Related terms

* rubro
* arrebol

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rubor (“redness”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ruˈboɾ/ [ruˈβ̞oɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: ru‧bor

### Noun

rubor m (plural rubores)
* blushing, blush
* (by extension) embarrassment, shame
    Synonym: vergüenza
** 2020 February 14, “Sin dinero para motel o condones: la crisis restringe sexualidad de jóvenes venezolanos”, in Newsweek‎:Cuando está de cacería en Tinder, la popular aplicación de citas, Jhoanna pregunta sin rubor a sus potenciales amantes por su “capacidad” económica.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

* ruboroso

### Further reading

* “rubor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10